Bironico commune (Ticino canton, Switzerland)

Bironico

by Pascal Gross

Azure a castle argent infront of a partiarchal cross bottony or and in chief on a sword of the second hilted and pommed of the third a cloak gules.

Željko Heimer, 26 June 2003

On the flag of Bironico, the castle alludes to the one erected in 1418 by the Count Giov. Giacomo Rusca, the patriarcal cross is the one of the Cardinal Agostino Oreggio from Bironico, archibishop of Benevento from 1633 to 1635, sword and cloak alludes to S. Martin patron saint of the church.